Windows What are your thoughts on HALO PC?

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  1. djgizmo

    djgizmo 1337 pimp

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    How well does HALO PC run on your system?
    If you look at this article, you'll notice the average tested FPS @1024'768(noAA or anisotropy) is around 50! And this is with the best cards on the market!
    Another strange thought, this article claims that AA and anisotropic filtering show no visual improvement in HALO, only a performance hit... No wonder HALO looked godawful and ran really lousy when i tried it... How can anyone argue that the PC version is worth anything if the XBOX version has been out for ages, and you can't get good graphics out of the pc version anyway? This is why i don't bother playing HALO. It looks terrible, and I have a 9800SE@PRO, so it's no slouch.
    What are your thoughts on this? Why the heck would I waste my time with HALO when I can run a more realistic, more fun(IMO), and more visually impressive game like Battlefield: Desert Combat (for free)?
    *PS if anyone didn't quite get that, I think HALO PC is crap.
     
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  2. Hamish

    Hamish What's a Dremel?

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    when i play it there are no textures, just big flat slabs instead :p :nono:
     
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  3. death_star

    death_star What's a Dremel?

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    Sucked, I have yet to try it on my new 9200. Ill go back to playing it 10x better on the Xbox's crap vid card :rolleyes:
     
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    djgizmo 1337 pimp

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    Hamish read the DH article on halo, that'll explain how to fix that problem. I never had that problem, but I still hate the ugly slow graphics.
     
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  5. DRxAndy

    DRxAndy What's a Dremel?

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    i run it on my geforce4 ti4200 128mb, with a 2000+ xp and 512k pc2100 ram, pretty smoothly
    i have everything turned on, as well
    tis fun multi
     
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  6. Hamish

    Hamish What's a Dremel?

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    DH? got a link?
     
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  7. Highland3r

    Highland3r Minimodder

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    Mp kicks ass, much easier to frag than sumit like CS and more fun as well IMO, much slower pace :D
    Runs fine on PC in sig, nice and smooth all details etc maxed, tho only 800*600 as 1024 gave some slightly jerky moments in MP...
     
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  8. djgizmo

    djgizmo 1337 pimp

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    yup. sure do. already posted it. it's the second one.
     
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  9. Hamish

    Hamish What's a Dremel?

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    :duh:
    ill give it a go :) cheers
     
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  10. ToM

    ToM mmmm, blud

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    the conversion from xbox to pc is god aweful

    but there is one saving point to halo pc

    multiplayer

    it has some of the funest multiplayer modes ever!
     
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  11. Hamish

    Hamish What's a Dremel?

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    \o/ works
    changed mipmap to high quality and it looks not half bad, got one of the worst cases of 'the jaggies' tho :p
     
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  12. RobbieGSM

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    Halo runs perfect on this syem every thing fully up to top my system

    AMD Xp1800 pally @ stock speeds
    GF4 GFX Card mx440 64mb
    ECS K7s5A Mobo.
    512mb ram
     
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    [cibyr] Sometimes posts here

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    It ran very jerkily at 800x600, no AA or AF

    9200SE 64meg
    P4 2.53
    512 DDR 233Mhz
    no OC's
     
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  14. Da_BaCoN

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    runs fine on my rig :confused: i love the multiplayer (haven't even touched single player since i beat it so many times on the xbox version). my only problem is people doing stupid team-killing. they need to work out a better solution to that (it's a major problem with the multiplayer)
     
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  15. micb

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    I have played it on a few systems:

    AMD XP 2000 + ATI Radeon 9800 np - quite decent frame rates although some battles do slow down a bit.

    AMD XP 2800 + ATI Radeon 9600 - much slower that the previous setup the framerates often drop right down in battle scenes.

    AMD 2800 + ATI 9800 Pro - decent frame rates very playable by far the best system.

    Halo is both CPU and graphics card limited, there are places that a decent CPU is required and places (often in the ships) that graphics card is stressed (complex lighting and shaders taxed by large amounts bumpmapping).


    For performance.

    Make sure you disabled the f-ing anoying 30 FPS limter by turning the game to VSYNC.

    Shadows really add a extra FPS tax to the game, disabling them really boosts FPS.
     
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  16. micb

    micb Minimodder

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    I am afaid you ATI 9800 SE is not really up to scratch for Halo, you card is close to the mid level ATI 9600 pro.

    The full ATI 9800 Pro is close to double the power of your card, especially in graphics limited situations like Halo.
     
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  17. Hamish

    Hamish What's a Dremel?

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    plays alright now on my 2500@3200 and 9800 np clocked to 440/310 ish
    tis only at 1024 tho :\ used to playing games that look like halo does at 1280 with no problems
     
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    djgizmo 1337 pimp

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    Re: Re: What are your thoughts on HALO PC?

    Have you ever heard of a softmod? It's softmodded now. That's why i said it was @pro...
    I get 5000ish 3dmarks on 3dmark2003.
     
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  19. ToM

    ToM mmmm, blud

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    5000 or 15000 cuz my gf2 ultra get 4000!

    and my 9600pro gets close to 12
     
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  20. micb

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    Re: Re: Re: What are your thoughts on HALO PC?


    So you are running you card with the full eight pipelines and therfor extra pixel shaders.

    I am surprised Halo is still not that good, may I ask what CPU do you have?
     
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